Prescott ready to roll under Pentium 4 guise

Instead, Intel is positioning the Prescott as "extending the frequency headroom" of the Pentium 4 chip, and the most recent roadmaps appear to show they're all ready to roll in early February.

Contrary to previous stories we've written, here it appears Intel can make Prescotts which use the 478 pin socket, but chips over 3.80GHz will only be available using the land grid array (LGA) 775 arrangement.

As we've reported here before, Intel will introduce a Northwood .13µ Pentium 4 at 3.40GHz, which has 512K level two cache, while it will begin inserting Prescotts with 533MHz 1MB of level two cache into its existing desktop roadmap.

There will be Prescott Celerons too, and they'll come in Q2 of next year, using the 90 nanometer process. They'll start off at 2.53GHz and will have only 256K level two cache, and use a 533MHz front side bus.

By the end of 2004, Intel will be able to offer these Celerons at speeds over 3.20GHz. And in the same time frame it will be as close to 4GHz as you can get. A 3.80GHz Prescott Pentium 4 will arrive in the third quarter of next year, obviously using the LGA 775 arrangement.

The wireless availability on some chipsets on the south bridge is codenamed Caswell, supporting 802.11b/g.

As well as offering the various Grantsdale chipsets - to wit, Grantsdale P, Grantsdale G, Grantsdale GV and Grantsalde GL, as well as the Alderwood chipset, there is a mass of own Intel motherboards it plans to release.

So many code names here you'd feed on them forever if they were trout, or be drunk as a skunk if they were wines from the Napa Valley.

Culver City, Black Canon, Sharkey, Glen Ridge, Battle Lake, Powers Lake, Comanche Creek, Cherry Creek, Avalon, Eatonville, Marblehead, Luxemburg, Augsburg, West Branch and Downey.

All these are slated for the first half and second half of next year. µ